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It looks like we're finally seeing the proliferation of single board computers take off. The latest is called the Gooseberry. While it will cost about £40/$62 USD at release, it greatly outperforms the current crop of tiny Linux boards. As the latest in what will be a long line of these ARM-ified single board computers, the Gooseberry hugely outperforms the VIA APC and Raspberry Pi with a … [Read more...]
If you're in possession of a Raspberry Pi, you may want to check out the new Chromium support for your tiny pocketable computer. With its terrifically minimal hardware requirements, the Chromium OS seems like just the thing for this $35 computer. The new Raspberry Pi supported Chromium build comes from the fruitful desktop of [Hexxeh], a.k.a. [Liam McLaughlin]. In the world of Chromium devs, … [Read more...]
[Dino] has been featured here at [HAD] on many occasions, so I was excited to see some of his inventions in person and meet the man himself. [Dino] didn't disappoint, bringing a display that included a working demonstration of his upcoming cover story for Make Magazine - an automatic doggie ball-thrower. Also there were some crazy musical instruments, what appeared to be a cylindrical oscilloscope … [Read more...]
The lion's share of soil moisture monitors we see are meant as add-ons for a microcontroller. So we're glad that [Miceuz] tipped us off about this soil moisture alarm he built with analog parts. It's really not hard to take the concept and build it in the analog world. That's because you're just measuring a resistance value. But for those of us who never really got started with analog parts this … [Read more...]
Since we're not high-end camera aficionados it was a surprise to us that the hot shoe that allows a camera to interface with a flash module has changed rather dramatically over the years. Apparently the interface used to be mchanical-electrical in that the camera would use mechanical means to connect two electrodes from the hot shoe. It didn't matter the voltages it was switching because the … [Read more...]
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